West Hill School requires enthusiastic and motivated Teaching Assistants starting this term.
We are looking for the right people to join our happy, thriving, and growing school. You do not need previous school experience, but you must be:
- Keen, fun and friendly and want to work with children.
- Able to get involved and love the variety of life where no day looks the same.
- Are motivated, flexible and want to enhance and shape the next steps for children.
If so, then becoming a TA could be just for you in either the short or the long term. In the short term, we offer wider training and experience e.g., Makaton and Attention Autism to help you secure the skills to support our very special children and our helpful team can guide and advise you to achieve your long-term goals.
Within The Howard Partnership Trust (THPT) there are career development opportunities available across a large number of partnership schools.
In addition, THPT is also able to offer:
- an opportunity to be part of a dynamic and developing organisation
- Electronic Vehicle salary benefit
- an excellent benefit package including Cycle to Work and access to discount schemes
- a fantastic Local Government Pension Scheme, including generous employer contributions
- rewards and benefits scheme that includes Loyalty and Service Awards
- full access to the Employee Assistance Programme.
Values and Behaviours
We are a values-based organisation and seek to recruit individuals who can demonstrate our values.
Our values will be assessed through the selection process, so we ask all applicants when providing their supporting statement to also incorporate not only how they meet the essential criteria for the role but to also demonstrate our values.
Our values are:
Integrity - displaying honesty and having strong moral principles
Partnership - working together and taking collective ownership to achieve the same goals
Advocacy - working hard on behalf of others to maximise their success
Resilience - finding success again after something difficult or negative has happened
Compassion - displaying empathy towards and a desire to help others
Aspiration - aiming high to achieve success
Please ensure your supporting statement reflects our Values.
SAFEGUARDING AND FURTHER INFORMATION
The successful candidate will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
The Howard Partnership Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Due to the nature of this role, it will be necessary for the appropriate level of criminal record disclosure to be undertaken. In making your application, it is essential you disclose whether you have any pending charges, convictions, bind-overs or cautions and, if so, for which offences. This post will be exempt from the provisions of Section 4 (2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Therefore, applicants are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are ‘spent’ under the provision of the Act, and, in the event of the employment being taken up; any failure to disclose such convictions will result in dismissal or disciplinary action. The fact that a pending charge, conviction, bind-over or caution has been recorded against you will not necessarily debar you from consideration for this appointment.